I hit a fig jackpot yesterday :) Jon sent my order from Encanto Farms which was 4 Trees: Stella, Bournabat, Dannys Delight, and Unknown Pastilier. And then when I went to the nursery to get some potting soil to pot up. Well there was a clearance sale.... one lonely fig. It was a 5gal. Brown Turkey with a ton of figs on it, some ripe.  It looks nothing like my Brown Turkey fig trees.
Well, here are the pictures and I added the sunrise this morning :)) HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!

Congrats! They look like very nice trees (nice sunrise too). Enjoy.

Nice pictures , it's gonna be nice to watch them tree's grow i bet. Kim also i noticed a small car that i bet gets great gas mileage.
Martin

Thanks guys!
And Martin, yes its a hybrid, haha just kiddin. My actual car is a Kia Sportage, which isnt much different from the red one in the picture :))

Kim,
Nice pictures, and I like the vehicle that belongs to the FF's
youngest fig propagator!
 
Do you plan on putting your trees in-ground?
 
 
Young Lady,    that's quite a fig collection ya have there ;)
 
The Very best to ya.
 
Cecil

Cecil,
Thank you! Yes, she calls it her ponitac,lol.  She has a hard time finding friends who are into figs.. Just kiddin. Though she is one of the only 4 year old I know who will eat them :))

Well, thats a loaded question!  Im back and forth on the in-ground.  I have 5 in ground right now.  And that new BT is plenty big to go in-ground.  My friend up the street with all the fig trees thinks ALL of them should go in and be wrapped but Im sacred!  Those from Jon are too hard to come by to take chances.  How about you, are you going to take the plunge and stick em in the ground?

Thank you,  its a little out of control, hahaha. Im restricted to cuttings now.  Its bad for me because I dont have a spouse to discourage the purchase, haha.

Kim,
I will not plant any of mine this year!
 
I will do the planting about March of 09
 
 
Good luck
 
Cecil

Kim,

The reasons to plant in the fall over spring involves root establishment (although there may be better reasons to wait until Spring, however).

• If you do not bare-root the trees before planting, the roots remain contained within the original root ball for a while.  When you put the root ball (roots and original growing mix) into the ground, the earth acts as a giant wick, and pulls the water out of the root ball.  If planted during the spring, the earth will be pulling water out when the tree needs it most.  This is why the instructions for a newly planted tree involves daily watering.
• Also, as the tree leafs out in the spring, if the roots have not yet established themselves the leaves will catch the wind.  Unless well staked there is a risk of the (at worst) the tree blowing over.  At best, as the wind blows the tree around, the finer, more fragile, new roots will break.  This sets your trees establishment into the native soil (and its development) back.

James,
 
After reading what you said to Kim, I might have to reconsider when I will plant my small plants (16 to 18") in-ground!
 
To make a long story short, if you lived in our (mine & Kim's area)
 
would you plant now and then would you just put the bucket over it on days & nights that gets below freezing?
 
Thanks, Cecil

Heck yea! Im going to just plant them then.  I dont have a great place to store them and I want them to go dorment without killing them so Im going to print what you had to say James.  It definantly makes sense, I just didnt know they got such an advantage.  Cecil- right, are we crazy in out climate to be having potted figs? Haha. They are such an investment. Great information James, thanks so much!

Hey Gang!
Long time since I have posted but the fig love is still strong :))  I planted all the figs right we last posted on this thread in the fall.  They did awsome over the winter and are doing sooo good! I will post some pics this afternoon, Im sooo glad its spring again. BTW its 32 degrees today in Dallas, Texas lol. Our weather is very.... confusing.  Out of all my fig trees the Texas Everbearing and unknown pastilier are doing the best.  Which of your fig trees are coming back the best right now?

Kim
The second picture from the top shows a lot of branches close to the ground level. May be those will keep you busy doing air-layering to multiply your trees. Good luck.

>>> It looks nothing like my Brown Turkey fig trees.
Neither does it look of any of mine, so I think it is probably
NOT a BT. Looks too "flatish" to me. Whatever it is, I have
never heard of anybody buying fig trees with ripe fruit on
board. My congrads...
BTW, Ilike the sunrise pics, too.

Hey guys!
Those pics were at the end of last summer and now the bottom branches are GONE  hahaha...  Ottawan, I had help pruning ALL my fig trees thanks to a critter ( small animal with sharp teeth) one poor tree (now a small stick) has no bark left at all but managed to push out 2 leaves. Now Im fighting the rabbits :)) 
Gorgi, I am with you that its not a BT, the figs are alot bigger than a BT with that melon sweet taste.  That tree was one of those end of summer, last tree on the lot deals and it had so many ripe figs on it but was soooo rootbound. 
 Now without the bottom branches I call it my fig whip, lol.
Thank you! Shows how early I get up to go obsess over my fig trees, haha.

monkeyk546,
I guess that one NEEDS to pay more attention to previous postings dates!
Sometimes, they may be mis-leading/understood (or not that clear).
Sorry (I missed the '08 part, this thread being an old resurrected one,
the word "yesterday" just threw me way off)...
And I do not seem to be alone here.

Did I do something wrong?  Sorry for any upset?

Kim
You did not do anything wrong. We enjoyed looking at the fruits on the plant so much and being all attention at the fruit some of us did not look at the dates. That is why I suggested air-layering and so on....

Welcome back Kim - sorry to hear that the rabbits are getting at your figs. It's still too cold here to move any plants outside and those that I stored for the winter are still sleeping but showing some nice greening of the bud tips. A few more weeks and the weather should be about right.

Steve
It is reassuring what you wrote about waiting for a few weeks before bringing out plants from cold storage, especially more so for me when I am in Zone 5a and you being in zone 6a and you still thinking of a few more weeks (unless you get tempted by a warm front coming your way).
Last year I brought my two plants outside in the 3rd week of April because I saw sign of growth and it looked a bit warmish but a couple of days later the frost damaged the leaves and later these two plants seem to be behind the few more that I brought out later.

Kim,

Around here we still have a frost risk into May but I won't wait that long. Traditionally, mid-April is a good time for us. I'm watching the weather and once I see lows staying in the mid to upper 40's I'll take them out. Unless of course they start growing sooner. I think 2-3 weeks and my figs can start to enjoy the sun. My other measure is the forsynthia we have planted along once side of my property. They are among the first to bloom bright yellow and then put out leaves. They are just showing buds now. When they are in full bloom, temps should be good enough.

Ottawan- I see, I didnt intend to confuse anyone. Just a update and thank you for explaining no nicely :0) The airlayering was a great suggestion that I will use on a similar tree, thank you for that!

Steve-Thank you! I guess the rabbits dont know the trees arent theirs..hahaha
Its probably better to do what your doing in NJ.  Here we have the crazy weather, a week of 70 to 80 degrees then by afternoon we are in the 40's or 30's at night. We have snow in North Texas right now.  But your probably soooo ready to get them outside :)) This time of year is like eternity.. The forsynthia, do they make big blooms?  My crepe myrtles are all at different stages, one full of leaves, one a few buds, on nothing at all.  TOday I found peaches starting on our new peach tree. A first for me to see ( a baby peach) As for figs most of mine have 5 or 6 baby leaves.

Forsynthia make many small yellow blooms over their entire length. They grow really big masses of long whip like branches that arch over to the ground. Ours are a good 8-10 ft tall and very wide. When they bloom, it's like a wall of bright yellow when everything else is still brown. It is so great to see them open because you know spring has arrived.

Sounds beautiful, I never see them for sale down here. I wonder if that means something :)  Right now its Hydrangas and Roses.